Rest easy and in the company of plenty of kin, cousin.
Posted on 03/19/2009 6:02:38 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white lightning, his widow says.
“He couldn’t go to prison. His mind would just not accept it. … So I credit the federal government for my husband being dead, I really do,” Pam Sutton told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday from the couple’s home in the Parrottsville community, about 50 miles east of Knoxville.
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yep were the only country in he world that cannot make whiskey legally
He's from Carolina hon.
John "Cheetos" Doe, he was busted when the Feds followed the cheez-dust trail back to his hideout.
Good post and I agree.
I sure hope they don’t try to cremate him.....
If he's only getting 170 proof then he's doing something wrong. You should be able to produce 195 proof on the second run if you are doing it right. Then you cut that 50% with water and your favorite flavoring to protect your liver.
My first husband & I went to visit his family in Tennessee one year, and every home we went to they offered up their own shine (with the comment that this is better than ole so-n-so’s).
Most of it was pretty good. I liked the charcoal stuff best.
LoL! perfect.
I thought we could make it we just couldn’t sell it.
Distill it. That will be more in his honor. Need to know how to make a good still?
Ummm..nevermind.
Illicit stills threaten two streams of government revenue - sin taxes and fuel taxes (the latter to soon be supplemented substantially as to reflect carbon emissions costs). Dual brigades of the morality police (enviros and the usual busybodies), in addition to the revenue collectors, have dogs in this fight.
filtering it through charcoal takes the edge off, makes it a little smoother.
Legal whiskey distillers "age" their liquor in hardwood barrels, Cherry, etc)that are burned on the inside. Thats what gives it that smoothness ( like JB)and color.
Not sure if he has the proper equipment to measure proof but it smells like Everclear. There was a Parmesan cheese plant in Minnesota I used to call on that produced about 20,000 gallons/day of near 200 proof alcohol. It was odorless but had a very strong Spearmint taste. I think they’re selling it into the ethanol market now.
no we can make beer and wine only
Can we sell the beer and wine?
Poor guy was persecuted for making alternative fuels.
You can if you get a distilling license. But you may as well become a distilling company by the time you jump through all the hoops and regulations and fee's, build your still according regulations, open your doors to inspections etc.
Rest easy and in the company of plenty of kin, cousin.
And smooth it was. We brought several jars back home with us & I got plum snockered on that stuff!
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